As mentioned earlier, Lviv was fantastic. I am really glad we had the opportunity to see it before it changes into the new hot spot destination for drunken british tourists. The city centre is extremely beautiful with lots of unrenovated russian style churches, little lanes and cobbled streets.
Lviv was where we started out love affair with Puztis Kase, a dirt cheap buffet restaurant which serves up tasty Ukrainian food such as dumpings, chicken kiev, borscht, Russian potato salad and of course Compot, a delicious berry beverage (cordial). A meal at Puztis costs around $4 au so if you order something horrible it doesn't too much cause you can always go back an order and extra plate of cherry dumplings with sour cream - see plently for vegetarians :)
One of culinary highlights to date was the Ukrainian Nationalist restaurant which asked you for a password to enter and then served up a shot of vodka if you successfully gave them the correct password. We were taken by some of the girls that worked at the hostel so we let them order specialty dishes and the famous honey vodka while we sat back and clapped along to the live folk band.
Another amazing site in Lviv was the cemetary. It is one of the biggest in eastern europe and was a sprawling mass of elaborate monuments and was no where near as touristy as the one in France (can't remember the name) as there were not masses of people searching for Jim Morrison's grave.
All in all Lviv was a fantastic introduction to the Ukraine, although still very much developing there is this feeling of excitement in the air that big things are soon going to happen in this small city.
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